Again, the CIA is making a mistake of having its public statements different in tone in a significant way from its underlying classified documents.

The total request is more than $10 billion and that's for 1 fiscal year.

How do you plan to circumvent these safety restrictions in order to launch from Fort Greeley?

I strongly support the President's decision.

Just to make sure that they are working 24-7?

General Kadish, you said at the hearing that you had plans to fly interceptors out of the Fort Greeley site.

Where is that third site?

Is it fair to say it will be less than 30?

I'm glad you're willing to take a fresh look at that.

As far as I know, that is the largest single year funding request for any weapons system in history.

But have you urged that the supplemental be filed before the end of the year...

We believe on the Democratic side that the Intelligence Committee should look at the use of intelligence by the policymakers, not just at the production and creation by the Intelligence Committee.

The issue is when will this supplemental be presented to us.

That is not a responsible way to support our troops, and it is not responsible budgeting.

The al Qaeda leadership structure that we charted after September 11 is seriously damaged, but that the group remains as committed as ever to attacking the U.S. homeland.

If it is going to be independent, it has to be independent of the President, and that means Congress has to be involved in the selection of that commission and the rules.

I would hope that the Secretary of Defense would help us carry out that responsibility with a positive answer.

Are we better off with that supplemental before those incremental costs have to be spent?

Well, it's really an unsettling answer from you, I have to tell you...

But have you talked to the Secretary about the need for that?

This has to do with a comment which was made to me by a family support group president for a deployed National Guard unit.

We should not wait until sometime during fiscal year 2005 to submit a supplemental budget request, as the administration did last year. Circumstances are different this year.

It's Congress which has said this war's costing $5 billion a month at least more than you have requested.

But apparently that provision of the act has not yet been implemented, and I don't know why.

A representative interim government is up and running, and presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in June of this year.